Surviving the Abyss

Cannot recommend. The game still feels unfinished, and the “ending” is just an abrupt game over, nothing really matters -type affair. The main menu image changes after the end to suggest a part two, but there is no second campaign, just uninstalling an abandoned game. My biggest grievance was technical problems, especially in electricity-laying mode. My second biggest grievance was trying to end the game, because the interface tells you that you need the three mcguffins, but mcguffin three never appeared, and instead mcguffin two in the trench could be harvested twice for the same three mcguffin effect. I discovered this after clearing the entire map for no reason, searching for the third mcguffin. This could have been a great game, but everything seems incomplete, and the devs are known to have bailed on this project.

It's worth your time and money, but the devs still have some graphical bugs to work out. It really ruins the immersion when your 30 ton light post hovers 10 meters off of the ocean floor with no supports after you build it. And why does it hover? Why does a 30 ton light post appear to float just above the sand? Well... that terrain you built it on, that terrain you couldn't see in the dark, wasn't absolutely 100% perfectly flat. So you get to either reload your game, destroy the light post and rebuild it for an unfair loss of resources, or just have the light post look really horrible for the entire game. I've got a boss graphics card and everything set to high and ultra. There is no excuse for this beyond lazy devs. But still a good game.

Coming from Surviving Mars, this feels like a solid early access game. If you've played any city builders at all, this game won't be a problem. Just build things as you need it, there's no real big way to fail. There's an interesting core game but it doesn't seem fleshed out enough. Also fairly short and once you've played it once, you've seen everything. Upvoted because its *just* fun enough if you get it cheap on sale to be worth a playthrough if you like this style of game.

one of the most boring games ive ever played. Stay away from it. It looks nice but its really not.

This game is really fun and enjoyable but it's kind of hollow, the story is very loose and I feel lost once I either start industrializing or I'm out of fuel and have to restart. It's fun but it really needs more in the story and possibly a new map or two to play on. Just to spice things up and make the game feel more alive. Thanks for reading, Tac0man12. Good things to you.

Took my sweet time with this, didn't really go for the achivements until second playthrough but managed to take them all in 35 hours in total. That says something about this game: it lacks challange. The concept is great though, I love the deep sea theme although it seems a bit off having sunlight dependent vegetation in the deep sea. It lacks the claustrophobic feeling with the large window and well lit buildings, sure it's pretty but I'd rather have the feeling of tight spaces and darkness. When it comes to game mechanics I miss some features like seeing how many workplaces are vacant, the ability to see details about, and navigate to discovered habitats. Also, why is there really a research option for an outpost when it gets built automatically when exploring a new biome? Here's a short list of what would make the game better: * No automatic outposts when exploring new biomes. Instead: Let the player build one of those submarine landings and assign a tranport submarine to that landing to get access to that new biome. * Make the tunnels cost resources. Powerlines cost resources, why not the tunnels? Concrete and Quartz would be proper materials, perhaps even steel. * Deeper tutorial. I discovered by random that I could shift-click a building to the place down a copy of that building. I also had to discover by myself how to switch off a building entirely or by just temporarily disable a working slot, and for that matter changing the priority of the building. Resource and worker deligation should be taught through the tutorial.

I want to like this game, I really do, but OMG is it buggy as hell! I cannot get mroe then an hour of gameplay out of it before some bug occurs and then the whole game shudders to a halt. Place down a building and suddenly an icon wont disappear, then other buttons wont work, suddenly the cameras getting sluggish, etc, etc, etc. Every time one bug happens a whole heap follow and the game breaks. Its an amazing concept but then execution is piss poor at best. Paradox FFS you can do so much better